The captain’s stern tone brought so passengers back to reality from their panic.
At this mont, people realized that the man in sunglasses only demanded the flight to change direction. As long as they followed his instructions, perhaps everyone would be fine.
Moreover, once they reached the ground, there would be police and military forces, which seed far safer than the current situation.
So, so passengers began returning to their seats, though all of them remained in the rear of the cabin. No one dared to go back near where the man in sunglasses was.
However, so individuals noticed that sothing wasn’t quite right.
xico Matzalan...
"Isn’t Matzalan a city in Sinaloa State?"
Soone shouted out.
The next mont, everyone fell into panic once more.
Anyone from the U.S. border regions or Central Arica knew what "Sinaloa" ant—it was the base of the largest drug trafficking group in xico!
Gu Ji squinted his eyes.
If there was a country on Earth where drug dealers were the most rampant, xico’s drug dealers would claim second place, and possibly no one would dare to claim first. For more than half a century, xico’s drug dealers have gradually taken control of half the country, their filthy tendrils reaching into every corner, with the rule of law almost nonexistent in terms of dealing with drug cartels. Even the police and military are helpless.
Among them, the "Sinaloa Drug Cartel" in xico, and indeed all of Arica, was unrivaled as the "largest".
The leader, Guzman, was unparalleled among the world’s drug lords.
The xican authorities dispatched elite forces to capture him three tis, expending a lot of effort and lives, but he escaped each ti. After the last successful capture, to prevent his third escape, they ultimately had to extradite him to the United States.
The last ti the Sinaloa Group caused an international sensation was in January 2023, when they staged an ard attack on a xican military aircraft and a civilian passenger plane.
A large number of ard personnel from the drug cartel flooded Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa State in xico. They pillaged, set fires, engaged in intense gunfights with xican ard forces, attacked police and military elsewhere, and even surrounded police stations with heavily ard drug traffickers, going so far as to assault an airport and attack a civilian passenger plane preparing for takeoff.
This scale of counterattack was exceedingly rare, even amidst the ongoing drug war in xico.
The goal of the Sinaloa Group’s operation was to force the xican authorities to release Guzman’s son, Audilavi, but it ultimately ended in failure.
It seems that the man in sunglasses using VX nerve agent to hijack the plane and redirect it to Matzalan must be for a similar reason.
As long as the flight lands at the base of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, the traffickers can control the passengers and use them as leverage to force negotiations with xico to release Audilavi.
Attacking civilian airliners, openly challenging the governnt.
And doing it twice.
Now that’s bold!
No wonder after the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011, Guzman was "promoted" to the top spot on Forbes’ global list of top ten villains. Indeed, the Sinaloa Group is full of ruthless individuals!
The flight from Los Angeles to Panama City is in a northwest-to-southeast direction.
While Sinaloa State is on the western side of the flight path, the man in sunglasses must have handed the flight attendant US Dollars, with a note about the hijacking threat and his intentions, after the plane left the United States and entered xican airspace. This prompted Captain Shang Mu to make a significant right turn toward the western side of the Northern Hemisphere.
Unfortunately, they encountered an "engine failure" ergency mid-flight.
To make matters worse, four-fifths of xico is part of the high-altitude xico Plateau, making landing inherently difficult, let alone an ergency landing, raising the crash probability significantly.
In Gu Ji’s mory, there have been two successful ergency landings following engine failures in history.
One was Ural Airlines flight U6178’s forced landing in a cornfield in 2019, and the other was All Arican Airlines flight 1549’s water landing on the Hudson River in 2009, famously depicted in the movie "Sully".
"High-altitude area, ergency landing, another dead end..."
Gu Ji gritted his teeth, pondering how exactly to break this deadlock.
anwhile, the captain began initiating a right aileron turn, and the flight attendants returned to their position to persuade him back to his seat after securing all passengers in theirs.
Gu Ji turned his head.
Good heavens, the rear half of the cabin was completely full, not a single seat unoccupied.
In the entire front cabin, apart from the bald cop, Chief Flight Attendant Betty, and the man in sunglasses, only Gu Ji remained.
"Sir! Co over here!"
Freckled girl Chloe waved her arms, not forgetting this man who had stepped in to help.
But Gu Ji paid her no heed.
Under the shocked gazes of the passengers, he plopped down in the frontmost seat of the economy class.
Which was diagonally opposite to where the man in sunglasses was seated!
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